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The greenhouse effect:
a scientific hoax
Why have the media blacked out the fact that most scientific
experts dispute the cataclysmiC warnings of a global warming
trend? Carol White and Rogelio A. Maduro report.
As we showed last week in the article "Greenhouse effect
hoaxsters seek world dictatorship," (EIR , Jan. 13, 1989) the
widely touted claims of the existence of a biosphere-threatening
greenhouse effect are being circulated to implement a
hidden political agenda. Those in the West who are pushing
the urgent need to act now, to cut back on the use of petrochemicals
to fuel industrial processes, are cynically intent on
reducing the capability of the developed nations to sustain
their own people at their present standard of living; furthermore,
they intend to use the existence of a so-called greenhouse
effect to impose further extreme austerity on the developing
sector.
According to the agenda of these neo-malthusians, the
"Third World" is to be limited to the use of "appropriate
technology." Various devices are intended to accomplish
this, including debt-for-equity swap agreements, which would
relieve countries such as Brazil of a portion of their debt, in
return for their agreement to alienate huge portions of their
land, as in the Amazon region. Organizations such as Prince
Philip's World Wildlife Fund (now called the Worldwide
Fund for Nature) would be given title to this land.
We have shown in previous articles (see R. Maduro,
"Razing of rain forests upsets world climate," EIR Aug. 19,
1988, p. 16) how the deforestation of the Amazon, African,
and Indonesian rain forests has been forced upon these nations
by these same conservationist groups who argue that
"Third World" nations should use "renewable energy
sources," explicitly the burning of wood for fuel instead of
petroleum and coal products, or the development of nuclear
energy. At present, over 60% of all deforestation worldwide
is the result of the use of fuel wood.
The ecologist grouping in the West which is pushing for
radical restructuring of industry is one tool of a group of
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international bankers and oligarchs who intend-in collaboration
with the Soviets-to introduce a new era of feudalism.
They would split the world between themselves and
Russian imperialists, into an eastern and western half. So far,
the Soviets have gone along with their illusions; however,
we can expect that despite the Soviets' full public support to
the ecology movement, and the constraints upon industrial
and agricultural production which it mandates, in practice
(and in secret!), they will never allow their own growing
military machine to be hampered. This is so for the same
reason that they do not intend to really share power with the
West, but have their own evil imperial dreams.
In the article published last week, we reported on the
parallel deployment of the Soviets, from Gorbachov on down,
with Western ideologues, to give ideological credibility to
policies intended to restructure agriculture and industry. In
this article we will present the first of a series of interviews
by reputable U. S. scientists who disagree about the existence
of a greenhouse effect as described.
Until very recently, the news media have conducted a
systematic campaign of blacking out any statements by responsible
scientists refuting the cataclysmic warnings about
the results of the alleged "greenhouse effect." A recent meeting
of 30 top scientists took place at the National Academy
of Sciences on the "Climate Change Problem." Almost every
single scientist at that meeting disagreed with the statements
made by the guru of the greenhouse effect, James Hansen,
but the transcripts of the meeting will not be made public ,
and scientists present, who denounced Hansen, requested
their names not be mentioned in public, otherwise they may
lose their positions. At least half-a-dozen such closed-door
scientific meetings have taken place in the past few months,
yet, the media and the government will not disclose the re-
EIR January 20, 1989